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Rock The Boat - Don’t Rock the Boat - The Jones Act Coastal Trade Part II
At the end of last year (2013) Kinder Morgan invested nearly $1 Billion to buy five existing Jones Act tankers and four new builds on the way.
RBN’s Daily Energy Blog and Insights sharpen your energy IQ through fundamentals-based analysis that makes sense of North America’s energy market dynamics.
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The Gas is Hot Tonight – Spiking Ethane into LNG Exports – Part 2
There simply is not enough petrochemical demand to absorb all of the ethane that the U.S. can produce. The result is rejection - ethane sold as natural gas at fuel value rather than being extracted and used as a petrochemical feedstock.
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Miami 2017—Marcellus Gas Heading to Florida
There will be no RBN blog published on Monday, January 20th in honor of the Martin Luther King holiday.
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Golden Years: The Golden Age of U.S. Natural Gas Part IV—How Much Supply Is Reasonable to Expect, and Why?
As we move into the Golden Years of U.S. natural gas, it is important to understand the long-term sustainability of such a large expansion to U.S.
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Could New Tank Car Rules Derail the Bakken Crude Boom?
The recent tragic spate of four rail accidents involving crude-by-rail, three of them carrying crude from North Dakota, have increased pressure for regulation of rail tank car standards.
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How Oil Get’s Where It’s Goin’ – Pumping Crude Through Hardisty - Plus Brad Paisley Announcement
Spectra Energy purchased the 280 Mb/d Express pipeline from Kinder Morgan in December 2012. The Express originates in Hardisty and ships crude to Caspar WY where it connects with the Platte pipeline into the Midwest.
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Rock The Boat - Don’t Rock the Boat - The Jones Act Coastal Trade
In December 2013 US Midstream giant Kinder Morgan agreed to spend nearly $1 Billion to get into the oil tanker business by buying two companies that own 5 US registered “Jones Act” vessels and are in the process of building 4 more.
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Please Come to Boston—New England Needs More Pipelines Part II
The icy “polar vortex” that swept across the US earlier this week brought freezing cold temperatures and a record 134 Bcf/d demand for natural gas on Tuesday (Jan 7, 2014). As a result natural gas prices on that day spiked over $70/MMBtu at the TRANSCO non-New York hub.
RBN NATGAS Billboard U.S.
NATGAS Billboard is a daily, early morning email and report that provides an up-to-the-minute view of the natural gas market outlook, including storage injections/withdrawals and price. Billboard’s models incorporate pipeline flow data, weather models, electricity demand data and more.
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I’ve Been Working on the Railroad – Crude By Rail – An RBN Energy Drill-Down Report
The wide scale adoption of crude-by-rail transportation since 2012 means that in the U.S. alone by the end of 2013 more than 740 Mb/d was being shipped to market by railroads or about 11 percent of domestic production (source: American Railroads Association).
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A Backstage Pass to RBN Energy – New Premium Services Launching Today
RBN Energy is branching out! Today we are launching our new premium services package called Backstage Pass. Just like it sounds, this new service gets you deep into the details of the data and models we put together at RBN, providing what we believe is a whole new level of information
